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<title>Install the First Management Server</title>
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<listitem><para>Download the CloudStack Management Server onto the host where it will run from one of the following links. If your operating system is CentOS, use the download file for RHEL.</para>
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<listitem><para>Open-source community: <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloudstack/files/CloudStack Acton/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloudstack/files/CloudStack Acton/</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Commercial customers: <ulink url="https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/">https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/</ulink>.
Commercial customers will need a <ulink url="http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/publicindex.asp?destURL=%2FEnglish%2FmyCitrix%2Findex.asp%3F">MyCitrix account</ulink>.</para>
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<listitem><para>Install the CloudStack packages. You should have a file in the form of “CloudStack-VERSION-N-OSVERSION.tar.gz”. Untar the file and then run the install.sh script inside it. Replace the file and directory names below with those you are using:</para>
<programlisting># tar xzf CloudStack-VERSION-N-OSVERSION.tar.gz
# cd CloudStack-VERSION-N-OSVERSION
# ./install.sh
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<para>You should see a few messages as the installer prepares, followed by a list of choices.</para>
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<listitem><para>Choose M to install the Management Server software.</para>
<programlisting> > M</programlisting>
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<listitem><para>Wait for a message like “Complete! Done,” which indicates that the software was installed successfully.</para>
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<listitem><para>(RHEL or CentOS) When the installation is finished, run the following commands to start essential services (the commands might be different depending on your OS):</para>
<programlisting># service rpcbind start
# service nfs start
# chkconfig nfs on
# chkconfig rpcbind on
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<listitem><para>Continue to Install and Configure the Database.</para>
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